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Microsoft's XBox To Join Battle For Video Downloads


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Owners of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console will soon be able to watch science fiction epics as well as play them.

Microsoft said last night that it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live online service in the United States, starting Nov. 22.

With the new offerings, Microsoft is joining cable giants and Internet start-ups on the long list of companies hoping to profit from video downloading. But Internet-based services have had trouble getting traction because it can be complex to send a downloaded film to a television screen and frustrating to watch it on the small screen of a computer. Owners of the Xbox have already connected it to a TV and, in most cases, the Internet.

Read more at the NYTimes

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